Weinberg Memorial Lecture with Frank Wilczek

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Mar

2022

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm

In Person (view details)

Featured Speaker(s): Frank Wilczek

Cost: Free

Join the College of Natural Sciences for the inaugural Steven Weinberg Memorial Lecture in honor and memory of CNS professor and Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg.

Description

Dr. Wilczek is an intellectual adventurer and the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. His current theoretical research includes work on axions, anyons and time crystals—all concepts in physics that he named and pioneered. Each has become a major focus of worldwide research.